832-225743 - Refuse collection, waste paper containers being emptied, at an external paper recycling company, Gelsendienste, Gelsenkirchens public utility company, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
911-9828 - Emissions from Waternet, a water business that takes sewage from Amsterdam and converts it back into drinking water, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe
832-203373 - Large overhead crane handling scrap metal for recycling, scrap island, DuisPort inland port, Duisburg-Ruhrort, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
832-203375 - Pile of scrap metal and car wrecks for recycling, scrap island, DuisPort inland port, Duisburg-Ruhrort, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
832-203371 - Large overhead crane handling scrap metal for recycling, scrap island, DuisPort inland port, Duisburg-Ruhrort, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
832-203374 - Pile of scrap metal and car wrecks for recycling, scrap island, DuisPort inland port, Duisburg-Ruhrort, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
641-12890 - Christmas tree made out of bottles, Ngala Lodge, situated between the resorts of Bakau and Fajara, near Banjul, Gambia, West Africa, Africa
832-165332 - Scrap being loaded onto barges to be shipped to smelters and melted down again, port of Gelsenkirchen, at the Rhine-Herne Canal, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
832-121582 - Separated waste for recycling of recyclable materials, plastic beverage bottles, Ceilandia, satellite town of Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil, South America
832-121581 - Separated waste for recycling of recyclable materials, Tetrapak, Ceilandia, satellite town of Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil, South America
911-9194 - Boy recycling wood after a cremation at the Pashupatinath Temple, a Hindu temple of Lord Shiva on the banks of the Bagmati River, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia
832-64238 - Iron and steel scrap being delivered by rail to the steelworks of HKM Huettenwerke Krupp Mannesmann, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe, PublicGround
832-64237 - Iron and steel scrap being delivered by rail to the steelworks of HKM Huettenwerke Krupp Mannesmann, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe, PublicGround
832-64240 - Iron and steel scrap being delivered by rail to the steelworks of HKM Huettenwerke Krupp Mannesmann, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe, PublicGround
832-64239 - Iron and steel scrap being delivered by rail to the steelworks of HKM Huettenwerke Krupp Mannesmann, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe, PublicGround
857-66684 - Workers repairing electronics at a shop in Accra, Ghana. The computers are shipped here from Europe and the USA and some are reused but majority are dumped in Ghana.
857-66681 - Burning of computer wire and parts to recover copper and other metals in Accra, Ghana. The computers are shipped here from Europe and the USA and some are reused but majority are dumped in Ghana. Poor workers often from the northern poorer region of Ghana do the work and sell the copper to buyers who send the copper to China or India.
857-66699 - Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps. Some kids look through this and try to salvage some coppers wires or aluminum pieces.
857-66739 - A village named Muftaffabad Loni on the outskirts of New Delhi, India that specializes in recycling circuit boards from electronics. The boards are taken out of electronics in other areas of New Delhi. Some of the boards are burned, some are dipped in sulfuric acid to get the metals separated from the plastics.
857-66708 - Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps.
857-66702 - At the Alaba Market in Lagos Nigeria many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. Only when material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps. Some kids look through this and try to salvage some coppers wires or aluminum pieces.
857-66685 - Workers repairing electronics at a shop in Accra, Ghana. The computers are shipped here from Europe and the USA and some are reused but majority are dumped in Ghana.
857-66696 - The Computer village at Ikeja neighborhood, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from USA or Europe for reuse.
857-66717 - Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. When material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps, and young men look for parts or wire that they recycle the metals. However, much toxic material ends up in these dumps in Nigeria.
857-66713 - Yinka Ogunsuyi teaches a computer class to 9-11 year olds from the Regency School in Lagos, Nigeria. He gets the computers from a contact in the USA and also buys some in Nigeria. The computer is a Pentium 3 Dell from the USA. Also at the school 2-3 year olds watch the movie "Happy Feat" on a Pentium 4 computer.